rebel say a highly militarized syrian war may see extra weapons flow into their hands while cracks are already appearing in what was hailed as a united opposition front. public anger expected in bailed out portugal at the oval on the merkel people are blaming the crushing austerity measures in the country this follows massive protests in greece against the cuts demanded by international lenders. and terror raid in a moscow as police arrest six members of an islamic militia and with allegedly looks to al qaida the group is accused of fueling extremism and russia.

good evening live headlines from the world from our moscow headquarters you washing our t. would be enough when marathon talks between serious fractured opposition in qatar scapel doha have seen the formation of a new political body the deal is the result of relentless pressure from the u.s. as well as its european and arab allies who want to try to see the current syrian regime toppled the new group was tasked with unifying rebel ranks but as artie's polis leader reports the plan may have been doomed from the beginning. this comes after days of political wrangling amongst the various syrian opposition forces they have been under pressure from both the united states as well as arab governments to form this unified body it is a sixty member assembly but it really brings together a wide array of people and organizations with very different affiliations it is essentially a patchwork organization amongst the new leaders are sunni muslims as well as

a christian former communist and among the rebel fighters are those coming from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds with many asking the question whether or not that infighting and whether or not those ethnic and political differences can be put aside the goal is really to try and organize it beautifully and also potentially to send went to the syrian opposition within the country and we're already hearing from one opposition member such as bush and from germany the united states qatar and saudi arabia have weapons to the syrian opposition and this is increasing concern in the international community that what we could see happening now in syria is merely a repeat of what we saw happening in libya not so long ago at that time the opposition called for itself to be recognized as the sole legitimate government of libya and we're hearing the same kind of core coming amongst the syrian opposition today what happened in libya was once that recognition came from the international

community if you need to foreign intervention so now we're hearing bush and has pledged that hundreds of u.k. soldiers working for you to syria the sequentially worsens so increasing concern that the situation in syria well ultimately be a repeat of libya and lead to foreign intervention. some analysts are questioning how much the newly formed rebel coalition is taking into account of the interest of the syrian people. from the very beginning of the conflict in syria the big question is how much influence do these groups outside of syria actually have within syria and i shrink as an argument to say that they don't have a widespread support within syria i think a fundamental point which is being raised. to the future affairs of an independence of her own country of being discussed by foreign governments in a foreign country that is absolutely outrageous we're talking about the united

nations the pillars of the united nations states. being completely undermines if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bitterly to discuss your affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also illegal ones the international. the overwhelming foreign support for the syrian opposition comes despite alarming reports that rebels are deliberately targeting civilians simply for their prasada views more on that from artie's wary of the notion that. it was described as conflict or uprising at the beginning no doubts left what it actually is violence calling slaughter the bloodshed we have a new kind of war. of them through proxies the deaths number in the tens of thousands and it's not just armed men engaged in battle from both sides it's also

ordinary citizens including the deliberate murder of civilians by rebels this is mohammad rough air i met and filmed him during my last trip to damascus this summer a prominent actor while he was now his dad killed because of his views. half syrian half of this teen in mohammad was an ardent supporter of the regime and an active campaign against those he believed were terrorists and that it's. was reason enough to murder him. i saw his body at a hospital who could make this to him. the f.s.a. syrian rebels admitted killing muhammad he was shot dead with three bullets and. my son became the first actor many of our to sacrifice his life on the altar of our motherland i appeal to these murderers what you did is not fair he was not guilty why should those who love the motherland be executed my son loved his mother went and he always helped people and was working a lot but none of this mattered to his killers mohamed was not the first public

figure to be targeted like those people in this least are sentenced to death by members of the syrian opposition doctors pilots actors in juniors are among them and this like mark means the clock is ticking what we have here is a kind of you know military. terror blackmail policy if you are cooperating with this government you are so to say a dead man walking and that is of course some kind of international warfare which no civilized nation can appeal to after the death of muhammad that affair his father says his proud his son became a matar and that he believes his death was not for nothing but with no end to the murders inside eventually he may just become another anonymise face in the growing statistics. r.t. . and another sign of the conflict spreading beyond syria israel has fired warning

shots over the border after one of its bases was hit by a syrian a mortar shell that's the first time that israeli forces have fired into syrian territory in the war then forty years more on that story for you on our web site r.t. dot com. protests are expected expected in portugal's capital lisbon and where chancellor angela merkel is visiting today people there blame the german leader for their nation's economic hardships the country has had to adopt severe austerity measures to receive a bailout worth almost eighty billion euros last year of our two sour firth is in the country's capital. what german chancellor angela merkel is making her first

state visit to portugal since the debt crisis began she's going to be meeting with the country's prime minister today is the german chancellor is expecting a warm welcome today she might want to think again at the same time as meetings take place we're going to be expecting protests to be taking place across the country and certainly in lisbon as they straight to start see measures of this and we seen an increase in the amount to say she laments and unhappiness with these measures now who trickles it with her you would become the southern european success story in a sharp contrast to what we seeing taking place in countries like greece but the reality of the situation is the push he goes facing much of the same if she's a rise in unemployment severe hits to the public sector all of this has really added to public on happiness is just approved the highest spending cuts ever in

portugal's modern history and that's certainly going to have an impact as soon out of schools on the country who it is struggling in the midst of recession there's great unhappiness as well it was seen as the closeness between portugal's government and the german chancellor is a source of a lot of talk it is the boss of a lot of people whose jokes you see it in the graffiti you see it later today in the protest signs but the prime minister it's felt by a lot of people sometimes even the submissive to angela merkel and people are really cooling for the country for their own government take charge of this not to be led by the german chancellor not just to be led by persons but to be acting in the country's own interest in going to see this protest movement they the protesters saying they're going to hang black cloth across the monuments and not really echoing the black mood that we've seen across much of europe as the euro crisis continues. well heading over across the mediterranean there's more austerity

pain ahead for greece which has approved next year's budget and forces new cuts on its already struggling population crowds have gathered outside the parliament as their leaders agree to more tough cuts unionists predict further civil unrest such as what we've seen last week when another austerity package was voted through adopting both bills was a disincentive by international lenders who've been blocking yell out for months now don longer from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says greece is sacrificing its own economy in order to stay within the euro but we can see that the kinds of measures that have been imposed on greece for more than two years because this crisis has been going on for a very long time these measures are actually making the situation worse but our economy is in three four it's been in three pulled through every year and the fact is that the greek political class like the rest of the euro the class in a sense i think prisoner of its own ideology. prisoner of the euro this

ideology such a power over legal. to do things which by any rational measure obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project of the euro in particular they are determined to do everything to keep the single currency intact even to destroy their own country just so and you certainly want over sixty percent to move the economy into a massive recession and so on. well home isn't so sweet for many u.k. citizens these days soon we're going to find out why more and more skilled workers are searching for better allies abroad a move that could leave britain scrambling for professionals. russian police have smashed a terrorist cell in moscow breaking into a hideout and make it multiple arrests there are the details now from our team is

going to also live for us is our bring us up to the latest. call the police of six people or suspected to be members of an international islamic terrorist organization of those who say that they recruit supporters in several mosques across the city spreading radical ideas that the investigators have also found nine doing the guns ammunition extremist literature and instructions on how to recruit people in their hideouts an investigation is still underway perhaps that's why their names haven't yet been released but we do remember a similar story just a few months back in august another man was arrested suspected of being a member of a different international terror network and these are yet new reminders that international terrorism is not something very far away these people could be here operating and scheming right in the russian capital all right well thank you for

keeping us up to date there reporting live. the sex scandal that forced the resignation of former cia chief as snowballing. were poured on whether revelations of the affair are part of a bigger political cover up all that coming our way after the break. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale a show of oil is the norm or should test small arms so those photos to machine building plant not are the source to count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the clowns history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear

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absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. i can go far to drive. oh that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to trouble to walk every morning what with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my. israel is considering a full scale military offensive against gaza following the latest rounds of fire exchanges with militants from the occupied territory around one hundred rockets had landed in israel over the weekend while air strikes were launched against sites within gaza and for more on how the situation could develop i'm joined live now by

gaza based activist and writer joe. sir thank you so much for being with us as i said dozens of rockets and mortars landing on the ground in israel what sort of a response do you see and could have military intervention by israel be in the works. well we're seeing military interventions on an ongoing basis air strikes have been occurring regularly since saturday by now i believe a total of seven people have been killed including three children. but in terms of ground invasion of the type we saw in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine i believe the israeli government is laying the groundwork for a possible action for the reports now in the israeli media. the times of israel and others that it's taking action on a few fronts in that regard haaretz has reported a global baro offensive designed to bolster public opinion among israeli

supporters in favor of a full scale attack and simultaneously the times of israel has reported a diplomatic offensive aimed at generating support for continued israeli aggression in foreign capitals so netanyahu is trying to move some pieces into place but at the present time i think he recognizes they simply aren't there but you mentioned earlier civilian casualties of course that unfortunately it was something that we saw quite frequently three years ago during israeli offensive do you think that this whole issue of civilian palestinians being killed is something that the international community would try to prevent if israel again takes a more sort of ramped up approach towards gaza. well it's something that i would hope it would try to prevent but it's lackluster response to the killing so far

certainly shouldn't increase our confidence. arguably the first in the current school lation that was on thursday when. thirteen year old was killed playing soccer east of khan yunis two more children were killed again playing soccer on saturday. and then two young men responding to rescue them were also killed by israeli fire. and so far we've heard very little from any of the international community about this. and if that's an indication of what is to be expected in the event of continued and escalated aggression it's certainly not a very positive one well certainly not but speaking of the international community of course the palestinian leadership has been determined to seek observer status at the un do you believe that they're likely to achieve this goal given the recent

violence. well i think it's clear that the palestinian authority has the votes within the general assembly to achieve. non member observer status of the term correctly and i think that along with a number of other political and diplomatic challenges the netanyahu administration is facing have a lot to do with its current aggression here. there are other factors as well the upcoming israeli elections this is certainly something to do with bolstering support for the new netanyahu lieberman alliance as well as the u.s. elections netanyahu took a big gamble there and lost all but publicly back. barack obama's challenger mitt romney who lost resoundingly and this is something that is not lost on many observers in my country and everyone is waiting to see what the consequences of that will be so what we're what we're seeing in gaza right now is i

think. israel attempting to bolster an increasingly weak international position. all right well thank you so much for keeping us up to date that was joe gaza based activist and writer. the u.s. congress is demanding more answered from the f.b.i. over the extramarital affair which had forced the cia chief to quit just a few days ago politicians say that david petraeus is resignation hit them like a lightning bolt so now they want to know how much national security was actually compromised and why nobody told them about this sooner want to give journalist james corbett things that there is a much bigger political picture behind the scenes. the question has to be why this scandal is emerging now why is it is embroiled in general petraeus and what information did he have that would potentially have been interesting to people who would have been interested in bringing him down and this actually we can start to

get to see some of the pieces of this puzzle emerging as it becomes clear now that that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in upcoming congressional hearings into what happened in benghazi in september and because of that some are key information about what happened in benghazi might not come to light including some interesting information that just emerged in recently that in fact last month general petraeus is alleged mistress that sort of broadwell was going around giving speeches about how the cia annex in in benghazi was being used as a secret prison which is why it was cut why it was attacked in september so there are some very very big things that are emerging right now and it looks like the operation to take down but to petraeus at this particular moment might be motivated by some of those backdoor political dealings rather than the sex scandal that is that supposedly made out to be we're also covering the story for you on our website that's our dot com if you had over there you can learn what has actually sparked

the investigation against the former cia boss and whether they and discretions warehouse stuff in order to save the obama campaign. also for you there demonstrates and donate occupy activists question a planetary relieve hundreds of americans of their debt are tied up with all those details. britain's brain drain could soon leave the country desperately short of skilled workers that's according to our recent reports that. sting the number of professionals chasing work abroad has soared in the past two decades are just bully boy called looks at why some u.k. citizens home is no longer where the work is.

london one of the global financial sense says it was even voted the best place to visit only won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in britain the u.k. home office has just released her of course but says that an increasing number of executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave britain last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand new cases and emigrated a the steves and now some five million brits live abroad and don't blame the unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now say that it's the high rates of taxation and the cost of living that could drive even more brits to move abroad people with a motor of the economy or people with a lot of property be approached with an education perhaps with ambition as well we need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small gross wage maybe even smaller by taxation to

a net wage that's the bit which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians who office findings that the majority of the people outside the think you take rat race do so also in the overall lifestyle choice signalling and keep up this intense with living standards here in britain that's not the answer. we really need some government to slow things for me consider moving abroad to avoid. slacking off and take you with good things from the people that owning a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that he. work into your job if you don't reward it with support of continued companies all ready complaining that they find it hard to find highly skilled professional foreigners to work in the u.k. because of the u.k.

government's count one migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young ambitious brits talking bad i might leave the british government wondering where the professionals have gone. let's take a look at some of the other international headlines making news in brief. iran has launched a massive air defense drills with fighter jets drones and thousands of troops taking part in the maneuvers cover nearly the entire eastern half of the country and come amid escalating tension with israel which threatens to strike iran over its nuclear program. more management scalps taken out of the b.b.c. the head of the news and her deputy have stepped aside in the wake of a botched story about child abuse which wrongly accused a senior politician earlier the director general squits while the chairman called radical for a radical overhaul of the british broadcaster george and two also will still get a report of two million dollars severance severance package for his job which just

lasted fifty four days not bad. dozens of tibetan activists have clashed with police in front of the chinese embassy in india they're protesting against beijing's policies in the region and are calling for the country's independence unrest in tibet has risen in recent months including a new wave of self-immolation. and after a short break peter lavelle and his guests will slug it out and our program crosstalk. catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas of catalonia economic success is

a way putting the region into debt trust me working hard only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies staying in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro so you won't have your own currency you'll be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that being truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion.

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